Keep Calm and Carillon

Frank Steijns (1970) is an all-round musician: city-carillonneur of Maastricht, Heerlen and Weert as well as violinist in the world-renowned orchestra of Andre Rieu. Together with Andre Rieu he composed many songs and works for orchestra. Frank travels the whole world with the orchestra and his own mobile carillon, a huge music instrument containing 43 tuned bronze bells.

Aida Mulato founded "Jóvenes Artesanos" as a way to rescue and promote mexican craftsmanship. Since 2009 se works with different indigenous communities which she documents through photographs to keep their costumes, traditions, celebrations, gastronomy and crafts processes of our country.

Lizzie Meek presents the Antarctic Heritage Trust which cares for a collection of simple, wooden expedition bases, filled with everyday objects. A life-changing experience for many of the people who visit them in Antarctica, they also strongly resonate with people who will never visit – because they are, despite the odds, still standing. Six minutes on the power of place, and the value of heritage in its original context.

Music has always played a big role in Luc Smeets' life. When he started thinking about the future of radio, he created something he found "pretty cool", which he called "Leap station". His idea won this year's at Startup Weekend in Maastricht.

Andrew Koehler, Associate Professor of Music at Kalamazoo College + Music Director and Conductor of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia : Yevhen Stankovych is a contemporary Ukrainian composer, and his 1993 Requiem for Those Who died of Famine memorializes one of the most catastrophic, largely overlooked tragedies of the 20th Century: the Holodomor, in which millions of Ukrainians died from an artificial famine created largely by Stalin's orders. The work will receive its US premiere next spring, performed in Chicago and Kalamazoo by the Kalamazoo Philharmonia and the Bach Festival Chorus, led by conductor Andrew Koehler. This music -- by turns haunting and riveting -- bears particular resonance for Koehler, who has studied and taught about the Holodomor and is a heritage speaker of Ukrainian.

“Hyper Knit” creator Saki Chikaraishi sees knitting as a communication medium whereby she exhibits installations and large scale knitting projects towns centers and open spaces. She introduces how her activities have connected people to people, and people to places. Her unique offbeat projects are bound to impress!